very simple pinescript strategy translation help

[LearningByDoing]

I tested the below pinescript strategy and the results were promising.
Could this be translated into a lua strategy? (optional sl, limit and trailing would be nice, but are not a must).

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Period=input('500')
longCondition = crossover(security(tickerid, Period, close),security(tickerid, Period, open))
if (longCondition)
    strategy.entry("BUY", strategy.long)
shortCondition = crossunder(security(tickerid, Period, close),security(tickerid, Period, open))
if (shortCondition)
    strategy.entry("SELL", strategy.short)


it's not very fancy but my attempts to bring this to lua are not really working very well (yet).
Period is in the pinescript a duration in minutes, but if I get ticks in lua it would also be fine with me (I'll then just convert it).

Any help with this would be highly appreciated.

[Apprentice]

Basically.
Open Short if we have a down candle
Open Long if we have up candles.
Is this True?

[LearningByDoing]

In short: yes.

while the candle length can be adjusted in minutes.

I was surprised to see how well this did in the tradingview strategy tester, that I want to give it a go with a lua strategy.

However my attempts with

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Source.close[-1] < Source.close[-period]

as condition did not even closely bring comparable results.
So I'd be very thankfull if you could give me a hint, or even better the lua code.

best,
LearningByDoing

[Apprentice]

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